I like to look at comparisons to gage the differences between crypto-projects. Analysing fundamentals, I find is the best way to judge if a project is under or over valued. The following analysis only considers team sizes, but usually the larger the team the more that gets done and the faster the progress within that project.
The following comparison looks at the team member count, with data sourced from Linkedin and categorised via employee size. The study also only focuses on Smart-Contract platforms and disregards other industry types. The reason I did this, is that I wanted to focus on infrastructure projects, as I like to "Invest in the cities not the roads".
From the study, it appears that VeChain has a sizeable team compared to its position within the market-cap ranking. EOS is about right for the team team size for market-cap position.
But more interestingly Factom and AChain which are in the below 100 of the market-cap, are number 6 and 7 in employee count respectively. The study obviously does not consider partners, market penetration or community. But from glancing at company size as a factor, they appear way undervalued.
Crypto Project Employee Count Ranking
Rank | Project | Employee Count | MarketCap Rank |
---|---|---|---|
1. | Ethereum | 163 | 2 |
2. | VeChain | 57 | 15 |
3. | NEM | 56 | 14 |
4. | EOS | 51 | 5 |
5. | Lisk | 46 | 23 |
6. | Factom | 44 | 104 |
7. | AChain | 44 | 107 |
8. | WanChain | 43 | 33 |
9. | GXChain | 37 | 81 |
10. | ICON | 34 | 21 |
11. | Waves | 34 | 39 |
12. | RChain | 31 | 40 |
13. | Stratis | 32 | 38 |
14. | Nebulas | 30 | 55 |
15. | MaidSafe | 28 | 115 |
16. | Zilliqa | 26 | 22 |
17. | DragonChain | 23 | 86 |
18. | NEO (Onchain) | 21 | 11 |
19. | BitShares | 17 | 34 |
20. | Aeternity | 16 | 26 |
21. | Komodo | 14 | 61 |
22. | Stellar | 14 | 8 |
23. | OmiseGo | 14 | 19 |
24. | Qtum | 13 | 18 |
25. | Aelf | 13 | 57 |
26. | Cardano | 12 | 7 |
27. | ETC | 9 | 16 |
28. | Ontology | 10 | 29 |
29. | Elastos | 10 | 71 |
30. | Bytom | 8 | 35 |
31. | DigiByte | 8 | 50 |
32. | ARK | 8 | 66 |
33. | Ardor | 6 | 60 |
34. | NXT | 5 | 91 |
If you have other fundamentals that you would like me to study, please comment and I will look to do this for my next few posts.
Note data sourced from Linkedin as of 10/05/2018